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Breach occurred 2019-05-01readnovel.com
What happened
In May 2019, the Chinese literature website Read Novel allegedly suffered a data breach that exposed 22M unique email addresses. Data also included usernames, genders, phone numbers and passwords stored as salted MD5 hashes. Read more about Chinese data breaches in Have I Been Pwned.
Data exposed
Frequently asked questions
The Read Novel data breach occurred on May 1, 2019. It was added to Have I Been Pwned's breach catalog on May 16, 2022.
22,424,472 accounts were affected by the Read Novel data breach, according to Have I Been Pwned's records.
The Read Novel breach exposed the following data types: Email addresses, Genders, Passwords, Phone numbers, Usernames.
Have I Been Pwned has not independently verified the Read Novel breach. Unverified breaches can still be genuine — verification just means HIBP hasn't been able to confirm the data's authenticity directly, often because the source is a smaller or less-publicized incident.
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